Saturday night, downtown Raleigh.

Rumor is that these two were working on songs for an upcoming Fleetwood Mac album but because Stevie Nicks wasn't available, they just went ahead and put it out as "Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie". The other two members of Mac weren't with them Saturday night, but they are on the album. So, we basically got a cheap Fleetwood Mac show in a small venue with a couple of Lindsey Buckingham solo tunes thrown in, and without any Stevie songs. Perfect! (just kidding, Stevie songs are good songs, too). I think we paid $60 each for the seats, 20th row, just a few thousand people outdoors on a nice night. I think it was $250 each for back-end seats in the Atlanta MonstroHugeEchoDome when we saw FM there in 2014.

The two of them started off with a set of songs where Lindsey played acoustic guitar and Christine played some minimal keyboard backups (Lindsey's "Trouble", "Never Going Back Again", etc.), which were great. He is a fantastic guitar player, and his voice is as good as ever. Christine McVie's voice is still good, though she was assisted by a fuckton of distracting canned backup vocal tracks.

They played most of their new record, which I don't know. But most of it sounds like good ol' Fleetwood Mac. So: acceptable.

Highlight was a blistering "I'm So Afraid" from the first Fleetwood Mac album to feature Buckingham and Nicks (their second self-titled). It's one where Lindsey can really stretch out and wail away on his weird little electric guitar.

The Wallflowers opened. Due to dinner issues, we only caught their last three or four songs. But, we got to hear two of the songs you'd expect them to play: "One Headlight" and "The Difference". From what we saw, they were good! And Jakob Dylan looks just like his dad - who we saw on the same stage four years ago.

Next up... Blondie + Garbage. This has been a busy spring/summer for concerts!